Step 9: It's Photoshop time OPEN THAT SHIT up in Photoshop (again)! 1. Select the "panel 1" layer, then click the little checkerboard icon near the top of the layers window. A little lock should appear in the layers window next to "panel 1". This locks the transparency of the layer. 2. Go to Edit > Fill > White, click OK.
3. Go to Layer > Layer Style > Stroke. Change your settings like so, then click OK.
4. For all the layers that belong on "panel 1", right click and select "Create clipping mask". Make sure that the arrows point to "panel 1". This should include all layers up to "p1 ink".
.5. Sweet! Now your panel looks like a panel. Repeat for all the other panels. Panel.
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Step 10: Fix things Employ all the necessary Photoshop trickery that you couldn't do in Painter, like copying bodies and logos and desaturating things. |
Step 11: Speech Bubbles I use vectors to make my speech bubbles. It's difficult for me to explain, but there are a lot of vector tutorials out there that can teach you. Do the same Layer > Layer Style > Stroke that you did for the panels. |
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Step 12: Flatten and resize image Yay!! All done! There are way too many speech bubbles on this page, I will fix them sometime (never). 1. Go to Layer > Flatten image. 2. Resize the image to 50% of its original size. |
Step 12: Save You should save as you work of course, but this is SAVING FOR WEB!!! 1. Go to File > Save for Web. A huge box should pop up. 2. Make sure you're saving as a JPEG, then drag the slider around until you have the quality and file size you want. (Approximate file size is in the lower left corner). I like to have my images around 100 kB, but it kills me to see all this ugly JPEG poop around the edges of my drawings so it's usually more like 120 kB. |
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Hooray!! Now upload it to the Intrawebs and hope people like it, haha! |
